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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-17
AUSTRIAN NOBILITY.
Unquestionably the Poorest Yet Most Ex
elusive Aristocracy In the World.


No aristocracy Of the world is so ex.
elusive as that of Vienna. 1t seems to
have inherited the appalling loneliness
and isolation of the Hapsburgs. The
English nobility admit ordinary NOR
tails to their presence if their character
OF intellectual ability entities them to a
certain distinction. 1t is SO also in
Germany and elsewhere, where titled
aristocracy exists. 1t is not so in
Vienna. Here nothing but the bluest
of blue blood entities him in whose
veins that precious fluid flows to min
gle with the real haut ton. Official po-
sition amounts to nothing. A foreign
ambassador may be the most eminent
of sayants, skilled in literature, rich,
socially accomplished, but he is des-
tined, though he passes many years at
Vienna, never to see the interior of a
salon of an Austrian nobleman, unless
with ticket of entrance when the fam
lily are from home. In the eyes of this
class, to be republican, simple citi-
zen of the United States, represent
ing the Government at Washing
ton at the Austrian court, Is
to be an humble parsonage in
deed. But what would become
of the greater part of these exclusives
without this adventitious distinction OF
birth. They would be the merest no.
bodies As an aggrieved person re-
cd f~, 10 oil hnv
Most of them are poor, their fortunes
or remnants of fortunes having been
long since swept into the Golfers of the
Jews, to whom also have passed some
titles of the lower grade, with the obli-
cations on certain properties and a
modicum of social distinction. The
Jews are as aggressive at Vienna as
elsewhere on the Continent. They are
the bankers and brokers. Most of the
fine buildings erected within the last
fifteen years belong to them. They
principally own the railroads and street
car lines, and the stock in insurance
and other corporations. Among them
are numbered many of the ablest Of
journalists. lawyers and doctors. This
success of race, against whom person
ally and as a religious sect there is a
prejudice inconceivable in America, has
given rise to spirit of anti-semitism
| which is intense, but can not in so large
| a city, as it sometimes does in Hungary
and Bohemia, result in actual outrage
and violence. To the Government and
the high nobility their relation has been
principally that of money-lenders, and
this has been the lever to whatever
amount of social consideration they have
achieved. Vienna Cor. San Francisco
| Chronicle.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-17
MEXICAN WINDOWS.
The System Of "Hooking" Practiced bJ
the Petty Thieves of Mexico.

Mexicans seem to entertain the idea
that windows were made to look in at
as well as to look out OF, and it is a
matter of daily occurrence for men,
women and children of the gamin order,
including peddlers and professional
beggars, to congregate outside the bars
and stand calmly staring in at us by
the hour. The first sight of these barred
windows strikes the stranger in Mexico
rather unpleasantly, and he is apt to
fancy himself in prison behind them
with his iron bedstead and brick floor
accessories. In time, however, he real
ICES not only the convenience but the
necessity of them, and by and by feels
an uneasy sense of insecurity if by some
rare chance he finds himself not thus
protected. The greater portion OF
Mexico is a land of perpetual summer,
where windows must be open both night
and day. and these gratings can not be
''picked" like locks or noiselessly cut
like panes of glass. But though one
may sleep here in perfect security with
out closing shutter, it is well to move
ones effects from proximity to the win
dows-for the ladrones have habit of
throwing in ropes with hooks attached
and dexterously" drawing out even your
garments-from which practice, per-
haps, originated the Texan slang word
.'hooking" for stealing. 1t is only
justice to add that there is far less
thieving going on in Mexico, in propor-
ton to population, than in our own
country, especially among the poorer
classes. l venture to assert that with
all your spring bolts and careful pre-
cautions to bring in even the door-mats
at nightfall there is more stealing done
in any northern city in single day
than in all Mexico in years time.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-17
PuNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
Indians have commenced cigarette
smoking. The noble red man will soon
be rare curiosity.-Troy Times.

Indians have commenced cigarette
smoking. The noble red man will soon
be rare curiosity.-1roy Times.
When 1t is True
That brevity's the soul of wit
Is true, we all will claim;
ssWhen 'sCheck inciosed' is briefly writ,
'sPlease send receipt fof same"
To Vocalist: We don't know what
will prevent your eyes from filling with
tears while singing, but the best way to
keep the eyes of the listeners from fill
ing is not to sing.
First connoisseur-sThere is GER
tain ingenuousness about the picture
that I admire exceedingly" Second
connoisseur-.It is certainly artlesss, If
that's what you mean. It'd Bits.
The coming girl viii walk five miles
day, says the Household. If the editor
will name the starting time and dis
tance perhaps the fellow she is coming
after can get out of the way.-Minse-
apolis Tribune.
-Artist-"H you taken my pict-
ures to the exhibition" Porter-sYes,
sir; it seemed to please the gentlemen
very much" Artist-What did they
sayP' Porter-"O they didn't say any
thing; they only laughed. "-Prairic
F'drn2er.
"A journalist who is said to be bald.
offers reward Of 81 900 for tale that
will make his hair stand on end.
change. If we were certain that he
could pay one-third of the reward we
would suggest cato -nine-tails. -
Hoosier Herald
"A brake has been invented which
will stop locomotive going at the rate
of forty miles an hour within space of
fifty feet. The engineer and fireman
are expected to keep on for about n
mile and half, but they are of little
consequence. Detroit Free Press.
They say Charley is q
great catch, and all the girls are run.
ming after him; but for my part I don't
| see what they find in him to admire. !"
Susan-"P Perhaps you do not know that
his mother has the reputation OF being
a wretched cook Clara--.'Is that sof
He'll make splendid husband for
] somebody" ."--BosteD IrGsiscriDt.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-17
NUMBER 2.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

-''Sandpaper' is now made without
either sand or paper. Glass is pulver-
lied and sifted ON muslin. which has
been covered with coating of glue. 1t
is better and more durable than the
old-fashioned sandpaper.-San Fran
cisco Chrontcle.
Almost everywhere coal must be
brought up from great depths, as the
coal-measures are often covered by the
secondary and even tertiary strata. The
coal-measures of the United States are
not generally so deep as those of En-
gland. States occur usually among
rocks still older than the coal-measures.
-C9eoeland Leader.
According to the report of the Ne
braska Horticultural Society the State
has now about $50, 900 acres of growing
forests, in which have been set 600, ,O00,-
900 young trees. Besides these there
have been planted over $4,000, 900 fruit
trees, over $500, 900 grape vines, vast
number of berry bushes and plants, and
countless quantities of ornamental
shrubs.
On the Transcaspian railroad, in
Russia, it is claimed that saving of
$500 per mile is effected by the use of
mineral wax, or ozokerite, for ties
When purified, melted and mixed with
limestone and gravel, the ozokerite,
which is abundant in the vicinity Of the
railroad, produces very good asphalt
This is pressed into shape in boxes; and
gives ties which retain their form and
hardness even in the hottest weather
The Lewiston (Me.) Journal gives
some statistics that afford an indication
of the extent of the lobster industry.
The average catch of Holsters on the
Maine coast has been IA, ,000, 600 yearly
for thirty years, or nearly SOC, 900, 00o
during that period. About 200, ,000, 900
have been used by the factories at an
average cost of one cent each. Doubt
less they have paid 100000 to the
fishermen. The marketmen have paid
50, 600, 600 more to the lobster catchers
in the last thirty wears.
The Prince of Monaco has been oc.
cupying his spare time in scientific
manner. He has been studving the
speed of ocean currents by means of a
series of experiments made from the
deck of his yacht, the Hirondelle. Be-
fore the close of the summer he sub
merged 500 bottles off the coast of the
Channel in the latitude of Paris, and
some of them have already been found
on the coast Of Portugal. The Prince
hopes to be able to find out, by the time
of the arrival of the bottles on the dis
tant coasts, the minimum force of the
currents, scientific problem hitherto
unsolved.
1t is a remarkable fact, to which at
tention has recently been called by the
English scientific journal, Nature, that
the lowest barometrical measurement
ever observed anywhere in the world on
land, after being reduced so as to cor
respond with sea-level, have been regis
tered in the British Isles within three
years. One of these was at Belmullet,
in the west of ireland, on December 3,
1881, when the barometer fell to nearly
twenty-seven inches. A very severe
storm followed, destroying many lives
and much property
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-17
JfNGO SCIENCE.
The Effect Of Old Maids ON the Appear
ance OF the English People.

ance OF the English People.
"Do you know, SIR" inquired an
American tourist of his companion
while doing England, ''the reason for
the fresh. healthful appearance of the
English people? Their complexion is
far superior to ours, or our countrymen
over the herring pond"
.Well, I know what Prof. 'Uxley
says"
..And what reason does he advanced"
"Well. 'Uxley says it is all h'owing
to the hold maids"
.'Owing to old maids!. You surprise
met"
"Fact. 'Uxley figures it out in this
way: Now you know the H'inglish are
very fond of roast beef?''
..But what has that to do with old
maids?''
go slow. This genuine H'inglish
beef is the best and most nutritious beef
in the world, and it h'imparts beauti-
full complexionr'
''Well, about the old maidsP"
"Yes; you see the h'excellence of
this H'inglish beef is due h'exclusively
to red clover Do you see the point?"
'.All but the old maids. They are not
in sight as far as can see, replied the
American, with sigh.
"Why, don't you see? This red clover
is enriched, sweetened and fructifed
by humble bees.''
'.But where do the old maids come
imp said the inquisitive American,
wiping his brow wearily.
''Why, it is as plain as the nose on
your face. The h'only h'enemy of the
humble bee is the field mouse, which
undermines and robs their nest
"But what have roast beef, red clover,
humble bees and field mice got to do
with old maidsp''
"Why, you must be very h'obtuse.
Don't you perceive that the humble bees
would soon be h'exterminated by the
field mice il it were not for
"Old maids!''
mo, if it were not for cats; and the
hold maids of hold H'ingland keep the
country thoroughly stocked up with
cats, and SO we can directly trace the
h'effect of the rosy H'inglish coD,-
plexions to the benign cause of H'inglisll
h. old maids; at least, that's what Uxley
says, and that's just where the hold
maids come him. Science makes cleau
many mysterious things, my H'ameri
can friend. ."-Teras Siftings
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-17
rRUlTIoN.

=, Glands hang too low, too low,
l's he ne ice bound streams refuse to sing:
noM bleak blasts may bitter blow.
ias lss ,s., rat1re's S pulse refuse to flow
AD1s ant true as Truth, at last comes Springi
-. 81, and It'll with brain and hand
vs. shat ma our poor world may brighter yield;
50. sse no blossom on the land;
". ns a. a. we falter, Gods command
p'1 Brjngs summer sun and golden field
,,vu where the reaper's sickle rings,
Wv We look and yearn for haryests o'e
4, hearts are full of murmurlngs'
~ ~ iii in doubt. Lo, Autumn brings,
We ss ssl true as Time, its treasure-store.
Al true to Gods good time, are done;
n'' All true as Truth, despite our fear;
v.eh eycle rounded out in sun
y oss shade. all sweet fruition won
" Oweary hearts! have cheer, good cheer.
--Eagar L. Waterman, IN ChdutauQuan.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-17
--Gothamite-"Livingin in Golden City

--Gothamite-"L Living in Golden City
eh?n Western Man-'.Yes, and I find
the western climate delightful. !" ..How
do you like the peoplea" swell, the
fact is, l have only been there two
years, and have not been able to get
into the best society yet; there is SO
much of the old family caste there. you
know There is?'' 20, yes, some
of the people have been there six
years. - It'd Bits.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-17

-.'What am likely to draw if buy a
lottery ticket?n asks rural subscriber.
We never succeeded in drawing any,
thing but long breath. - Chicago Ram
bier.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-17

"A mans income should never be
judged by the number of dogs he is able
to keep.-FdH Riuer AdpGnce.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-17

IL wish I was public house, y said
a loving woman to her husband.
..Why?" he inquired with some degree
Of surprise. 20. because you would b
in eighteen or twenty times das te
zee me.-M T. Maj,
The Osceola times., 1887-07-02

the Capitol grounds. This looks
hard, but it is just, for these guardi-
ans of the city have no right, in the
smallest particular, to betray the
trust reposed IN them.
Within the past week so many
prominent Democratic Statesmen
have arrived IN this city that there
are those who think an important
conference on party policy is pend
ing ard that it will be followed by
good results, all of which | hope is
really true.
The fact that Secretary Fairchild
ordered by telegraph the prepayment
Of the July interest on bonds amount
ing to about s9,000,000, caused some
alarm in financial circles, when con-
sidered with reference to monetary
disasters in New York, Cincinnati,
and Chicago, but the Secretary ex-
plains his action by saving that it
was not due to any apprehension
about the financial situation; the in.
terest being due July lst., and the
checks made out, the Department
was put TO no inconvenience and the
effect, he believed would be reas-
suring.
The Osceola times., 1887-07-02

In view of the agitation towards
raising means, by subscription, to
open a road to Big Lake, in order
secure the trade from that point to
Osceola, and considering the almost
penurious response in the way of
contributions by those directly in
terested, the following from an ex-
change is good reading:
"The only men who are Of worth
to a town or community are those
who can forget their own selfish ends
long enough and who are liberal
enough in their ideas to encourage
every public and private enterprise
who are ready with brain and purse
to forward any project that is calcu-
lated to build up the town and en-
hance its importance. The enterprise
and push of community in its in
fancy ls the foundation of its perma-
nent success. A town might as we'll
prepare for Its funeral as to become
Indifferent to the enterprise and in-
dustry in its midst. Men who come
to town to make it their future
home, who can't see far enough a.
head of them to see that money plac-
ed judiciously in public enterprise
of their own town will bear hundred
fold in the appreciation of their pro-
perty, are to be pitied. They belong
to a class who are ever ready to take
all they can of some one else's build
ing and enterprise, but are not will
ing to do anything themselves. 1t
is the town with the most enterpris-
ing citizens in it which grows most
rapidly"
The Osceola times., 1887-07-02

THE balloon ascension gotten up
by the New York World and the
st. Louis Post Dispatch III the in
tcrest of science, arid sent up at st.
Louis last week, was Il signal failure.
After attaining height Of 10000
feet, the bag sprung leak and de-
sceuded like a rocket after its eX-
plo>ion. BY throwing out the bal
last aud eniptying the jugs slowed
away to counteract the effects of tie
upper currents Of air, the balloon,
between throwing out ballast and
escaping fusil oil from the jugs was
kept bobbing up and down like a
fishing cork with grinnell pulling
at the bait, The drag ropes with
grab attachments were thrown out,
when several pannels of fenceing,
u pig pen and two or three chic ken
coops were demolished. Finally an
old woman caught one Of the ropes,
made half hitch around an apple
tree which stood in her front yard
and brought the Worlds-Post- Dis
patch enterprise to an inglorious end.
The machine will be hauled back to
St. Louis, and another attempt made
to visit the inhabitants Of the starry
kingdoms. This time the chief edi-
tors of these two leading and enter
prisirg journals will accompany the
expedition in person and furnish the
volatile fluid necessary to insure a
safe and speedy journey to the moon.
Bon voyage.
The Osceola times., 1887-07-02

The Dakota liquor men are great
ly frightened. There is certainly
substantial grounds for their fears.
The license question will be submit
ted to popular vote next November.
Fifteen counties have already adopt
ed Prohibition. Not more than a
dozen counties will vote license
Prohibition is sweeping the deck
Kansas City Herald.
The Osceola times., 1887-07-02

Now that wheat and coffee have
taken tumble at the market centers
and the gamblers IN said articles of
consumption haye come to grief, it
is to be hoped the present exorbitant
prices will not be kept up by the re-
tail dealers throughout the country
longer than is actually necessary to
make them whole. The people are
anxious to return to wheat bread
and straight coffee diet.
The Osceola times., 1887-07-02

A special from Pine Bluff to the
Memphis Appeal, says; The Rev.
J. NJ. Collins, pastor Of the African
Methodist Episcopal church, and ed.
i;or Of the Western Review, skipped
out this week, and carried with him
a sixteen year old girl, whom he Sc
duced from her family aud the paths
Of virtue"
Collins will be remembered as the
same coon who was in charge of the
A. NJ. E. Church at this place, and
figured largely in politics a few
years ago. Elevation ard distinction
above his fellows turped his head.
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Official Directory.
cn1,NrY nrFICEHS

COUNTY OFFICERS;
countv and Probate Judge-L u hn5heH.
CIrcui, and County Clerk-Hugh McNeiEh
sh.,if and Collector W. : Hayes.
county Examiner Leon Rosssan'
County Tressurcr-J ames Llstoh
County surveyor-P II. Clay
County Coroncr J. VI. Lawrence
County Asse,sor-Belhel l.. Hil
MONROE TOW NSHlr.
Justices OF the Peace--N. o 'Atwrlght,
M. stephenson. NJ c Tandy.
Constahl.-W w Nard
MUNICIPAL OFFICERS
Msyor--Bsn II Bscchas
Recorder--Loon Rcussau.
hldernen--J amer Listor, =. Is nae u. IL
Lawrence, \ l. Avery 7. A summers
The Osceola times., 1887-07-02

MR. JOHN 7. EDRISGroN's many
friends here in Mississippi county
will be pleased 10 learn that he is
now associated with the Memphis
Grocery Company, one Of the largest
business corporations in the South,
and composed of seventeen Of the
best firms uf Cctton Factors of the
city of Memphis. His position in
the corporation Is that Of Secretary
and Treasurer.
The Osceola times., 1887-07-02

GIN. w. p. WALSH, ex-Mayor of
Hot Springs, after a preliminary trial
on charge of rape, preferred by a
Miss Ella Dyer, and which occupied
three or four weeks, was committed
to Jail to await the action of the
Grand Jury.
The Osceola times., 1887-07-02

THE new treasury vault which is
being built by the Department at
Washington, will be ninety feet long
by fifty feet wide and eleven feet
nine inches high, and when full will
hold 100000, 900 silver dollars.
For our part we can see no reason
for boarding the peoples money.
when the interest aud wcllfar., Of the
country at large so urgently demands
its circulation.
The Osceola times., 1887-07-02

WE acknowledge the receipt of a
well bound copy Of the Acts of the
last Legislature, for which Secretary
of State, E b. Moore, will please
accept our thanks.
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,o,heir legitimate business.

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The Osceola times., 1887-07-02

Five thousand dead bodies are. in
the course OF year, sent TO the
morgue in New York city. lndis-
putsble facts show that Drunkenness
brings 1000 of them there.
The Osceola times., 1887-07-02
B. II. BACCHUs. NJ. II. FLETCHER.
BACCHUS & FLETCHER,
Druggists.
Corner Main 4 Merchant Street, Osceols, Ark.

IT is stated on what appears to be
good authority, that the President
has offered the vacancy on the U. S.
Supreme bench to Secretary Lamar.
The Osceola times., 1887-07-02

When the State legalizes the dram
shop, it breeds the murderer, the
thief, the gambler, aud home de-
stroyer.-Issue.
The Osceola times., 1887-07-02

The Florida house has passed the
bill 10 enforce the local option pro-
visions Of the new constitution.
The Osceola times., 1887-07-02

Pure Ice always On hand, which !
Will deliver to the trade at lc. per ID,
and To consumers or families, in small
Quantities at lie. Respectfully,
o-lu. Jas. NJ. HAMILTON.
The Osceola times., 1887-07-02
VOLUME XVIII.
THE 0SCE0Lk TIMES.
LEON ROUSSAN,
and Prophet g t r

nr,vs OF sUBsCRIP,IoN. lin advance .
~, . Term of One year. ar.'.".....'..''''sI "
fo' SIX Months. ..... ....'.' 10
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II. M. McVeigh,
ATTORNEY AT Law.
OSCEOL.4,

mississippi County Ark.
Will practice in all the Counties of
this (2d) judicial Circuit, the Su-
preme Court Of the State, and in
the adjoining counties of Tennes.
see and Missouri. Special and
prompt attention given TO collec-
'ions, to the payment of taxes,
examining snd abstracting titles,
and TO whatever may appertsln 20
a general Land Agency. Jan. IT,
The Osceola times., 1887-07-02

The Pre,by terisn Ladies' Md Society mestt
,ytry "Wednesday afternoon al o cIoCA'. ~ ao's o.
Al,r Go d rlch's residence. -''
The Osceola times., 1887-07-02
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

Notices underthis head giving anne. occups.
ton, business or profession, and location. will
be charged S. per snnum.
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Masonic.

The stated communications OF os',eoia Lods'
No AZ Ar a NJ. will BE- held the satu r
day. on or next before each full moon lh'
members are ordered to sttrsd promptly
All Ma tor Mesoas IN good atandine ar
cordially invited to attend - a., =,
by order Of j. W PlsicE. W. Nj
Lkoy R0ussAs. Secretary
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